Welcome to the Voice of America's “News Words”.
欢迎收听美国之音“新闻词汇”。
This week's news word is about problems in the medical field: error.
本周的新闻词汇有关医疗领域的问题：误差。
The Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization use billing codes to determine the principal causes of death.
疾病管控中心和世界卫生组织使用账单代码来确定死亡的主要原因。
Without a code for medical error, the problem cannot be studied or corrected.
没有医疗误差的代码，问题就不能得到研究和改正。
An error is a mistake.
误差就是错误。

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine says medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States.
约翰霍普金斯大学医学院表示，医疗误差是美国的第三大死亡原因。
Errors are not just made in the medical field, though. Life is filled with human errors.
然而，误差并非只存在于医疗领域。生命中充满了人类的错误。